The Penticton Arts Council has released the list of nominees for the upcoming second annual Penticton and District Arts Awards.
Categories range from dance to media arts, with two new awards joining the list this year. The aboriginal arts excellence award and the aboriginal youth (19 and under) literary award have been added to the categories for this year’s awards and encompass all art forms.
Lynn Allin, executive director of the Penticton Arts Council, said the Arts Council has their feet under them now after hosting the first ever arts awards last year.
“After your first one you can learn what you can do differently and make changes and improve and so I think this one is going to be an even more wonderful event than last year,” Allin said.
She is expecting around 250 people and said the event is likely to sell out like last year.
Notable nominees include mayor Andrew Jakubeit, who is nominated for a media arts award; Dream Café owners Pierre and Debra Couture, who are nominated for the supporter of the arts award; Peach City Radio, who are also up for the supporter of the arts award; and Many Hats Theatre Company who are up for the theatre award.
The awards ceremony takes place Feb. 26 at the Shatford Centre. The reception begins at 6 p.m. with awards presentations at 7 p.m.
Those up for the lifetime achievement award will be chosen by the Arts Council board of directors.
Here’s the list featuring all 74 nominees across 13 categories.
Aboriginal Arts Excellence
Herman Edward
Victoria Baptiste
Billie Kruger
Levi George
Phyliss Isaac
Robin Edgar-Haworth
Aboriginal/Youth
Meilaia Big Eagle
Dance
Bahiti Belly Dance
Boundless Belly Dance
Get Bent
Even Dance
Design
Patrick Vrolyk
Jemima Whitworth
Avante Kiosks
Arts Educator
Aiden Mayes
Bethany Handfield
Ernst Schneider
Gord McLaren
Lori Grant
Maiya Robbie
Mandy Cole
Paul Crawford
Jenny Long
Cindi Tomochko
Graphic Arts
David Maccoubry
Amber Goodwin
Kristine Lee Sheperd
Nicholas Vincent (Shadowfax)
Angela Hook
Literary Arts
Ann Barton
Yasmin John-Thorpe
Media Arts
Andrew Jakubeit
Jon Pelletier
Nikos Theodosakis
Erick Thompson/Erin Trainer (ET2)
Chris Stenberg
Diguno Media
Music
Ernst Schneider
Gord McLaren
Michael Musclow
William Leggott
Carol McGibney
Yanti Rowland
Steve Jones
Leanne Nash
Supporter of the Arts
David Maccoubry
Ernst Schneider
George Traicheff
Pierre Couture
PKMF
Pierre and Debra Couture (Dream Café)
Bob Doull
Robin Edgar-Haworth
Peach City Radio
Theatre
Big Broadcast of 2014
Diane Schmidt
Many Hats Theatre Company
Penticton Chamber Theatre
Visual Arts
Jan Little
Kindrie Grove
Kristine Lee Sheperd
Liz Marshall
Patrick Vrolyk
Doug Morton Oliver
Karsten Coty-Scholl Osoyoos
Kim Russel
Jenny Long
Shannon Ford
Youth
Emily Whelan
Kehler Mackenzie Smith
Nikolas Filipovic
Haley Regan
